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''Nobody(Nadie) is a 2010 Cuban documentary film. Directed by Miguel Coyula, the film’s protagonist is poet Rafael Alcides, once a widely known and celebrated writer of the Cuban revolution. Today he is a stranger in his own country, running out of time, as he tries to salvage his unpublished political novels from the ink literally fading away from their pages. This is a story of love and deception in the Cuban revolution as seen through the eyes of someone who was initially mesmerized by all its possibilities.

Plot
Rafael Alcides talks about the political novels he hasn’t been able to publish. HE tries to salvage them by transcribing them to a computer. Structured as a stream of consciousness the film eventually becomes a duel. Coyula has often described the film as “A story of love and deception between two men and a woman. The two men being Rafael Alcides and Fidel Castro, and the woman is the revolution”

Production
In 2015 Coyula was in the middle of filming his film Blue Heart, Corazon Azul, when he had an accident and was confined to rest at home. He decided to interview Rafael Alcides and created short episodes for a webseries called “Rafael Alcides” After filming new material totaling 40 hours of interviews, he decided to create a feature. Production was simple: Coyula filmed Alcides against a black background and using postproduction techniques, added elements of fiction and animation behind and in front of Alcides while he speaks. Coyula then went filmed several images of the city and actress Lynn Cruz as a fictional character in the film. Nadie was completed in August 2016. When Fidel Castro passed away in November, Coyula rushed to film the funerals and edited the last sequence of the film. ref> ref> ref> ref> ref> ref> Coyula, Miguel (18 December 2017) "

Reception
Controversy marked the film from the very beginning. The World Premiere took place at the Global Film Festival in the Dominican Republic, where it won the Best Documentary award. When Coyula returned to Havana, he suffered a police raid when he tried to screen it a private gallery. State security agents blocked the gallery’s entrance preventing attendees to enter. Coyula wrote a defense of his freedom of expression and declaration of principles in defiance of the Cuban Government, which earned the silence from colleagues and critics residing in the Island.

Like Alcides before him, Coyula was soon rendered a non-person in the cultural scene in the Island and sometimes abroad. The film which was already accepted at the Mar de Plata Film Festival in Argentina, was withdrawn without a clear reason. In 2018 the film was screened at MoMA as a part of a series of censored works curated by Dean Luis Reyes and Tania Bruguera. Nadie received positive reviews throughout its Film Festival run outside of Cuba. Matthew Roe stated at Criticlysm: “Nadie is an irrevocable achievement in documentary filmmaking, and should be seen as a benchmark from which the industry should emulate and evolve.”Critic NéstorDíaz de Villegas wrote at NDDV: “Miguel Coyula is perhaps the most important contemporary Cuban artist. His auteur cinema disposes verbal narration and chooses the technique of collage. Instead of a film based on a book, Nadie is a document built around a personality.” Ismael Marinero, from El Mundostated:“Alcides reflects with undisputable lucidity about the Cuban Revolution, and about being an uncomfortable artist” Alfonso Quiñones described the film at El DiarioLibre as “A work created with absolute independence from any kind of institutions, Cuban or foreing, at a low cost, with great poetry, human breath, and superb cinematic quality.”Yania Suárez at Diario de Cuba wrote: “…But Nadie is above all things the work of an artist, one of the most talented filmmakers we have. If the subject matter would be trivial (which it isn’t) we should see this film alone for its aesthetic virtuosity, in the manner the author weaves audiovisual language, with both the voice of the poet, and the narration” Francis Mármol at La Opinión described it as: “An exercise of poetry with capital letters”

Awards

 * Best Documentary, Global Film Festival, Dominican Republic, 2017